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This Event is Sold Out ACI Chef Instructor Wine Dinner Thursday May 11, 2017 Arizona Culinary Institute's Chef Instructors are hosting a multi course Wine Tasting Event on May 11, 2017 in du Jour Restaurant. 6 Chefs along with ACI's certified Sommeliers/Instructors will present a six course tasting menu along with six different wines to pair

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April 2017 I’m not really sure how this happened, but somehow Spring Break has come and gone! In the blink of an eye the first quarter of 2017 has disappeared. Since things around here never slow down, here are some of the upcoming activities at ACI….. Beginning the week of Monday, April 17th, du Jour will

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  Arizona Culinary Institute's Alumnus, Chef Tandy Peterson Just returned from an internship at the 10th ranked best restaurant in the world located in Spain. She invites you to experience "Tastes of the Basque Region" on March 9, 2017 at du Jour Restaurant. This wine lover's happening features one seating at 6:30 p.m. promptly. ACI's du

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Arizona Culinary Institute has added 2 Instructors to is Faculty. Returning is Chef Jennifer Sedig, CEPC Chef Sedig will be teaching both Basic Baking and Advanced Baking for the PM Students.   2004 Alumni Chef James West will be teaching the Advanced Cuisine, du Jour Restaurant for the PM class. Please stop be the campus and

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          Hello ACI family, and welcome to 2017!  We are back in full-swing here on campus and enjoying every second of it! We want to welcome all of our new day-program students that started on Monday, January 9th, and say how excited we are to start our new night-program students on Monday,

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        Hello ACI family!  Welcome to the end of another fabulous year! I want to say congratulations to all of our students that graduated on Friday, December 2nd.  Graduation days are very proud days for us.  There’s such a great feeling in helping people open the door to their career and graduation is

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October 2016, From The Executive Chef: Greetings everyone, and happy October! I hope the season is treating you well. This is about the time of year where business in The Valley is ramping-up again, and all the cooks and chefs out there have plenty to keep them busy! A quick recap of the Glenn Humphrey Memorial

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Happy Fall everybody! We have survived another summer! It is so nice to finally feel the kitchens cooling down a little bit, and now we get to enjoy 8 months of amazing weather. The biggest thing on my mind right now is Saturday, October 15th. What’s happening that day you ask? Well, it’s our 2nd Annual

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Hello ACI family. I feel honored, yet again, to have the opportunity to update you on all-things-Arizona-Culinary in this newsletter. We have plenty of things going on to talk about, but perhaps that can wait. For this month’s installment, I find myself in a period of reflection. As many of you probably know, ACI recently had

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        Greetings everyone! I hope you’re all doing your best to stay cool and comfortable during our lovely Arizona summer. I want to begin this newsletter by welcoming a new member to our team: Chef Creighton Schroeder. Chef is joining us as our Director of Education. That means that in addition to teaching

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